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Protecting Your Company From Cryptocurrency Fraud
According to blockchain data company Chainalysis, cryptocurrency transactions associated with illegal activity ...
Smooth sailing: Tips to speed processing and avoid hassles this tax season
The IRS began accepting 2021 individual tax returns on January 24. If you haven’t prepared yet for tax season, here are three quick tips to help speed processing and avoid hassles.
Educate your children on wealth management? (January 25, 2022)
There’s no one right way to teach your children about money. The best way depends on your circumstances, personality, and your comfort level.
If your kids are old enough, consider sending them to a money management class. For younger children, you might start by simply giving them an allowance in exchange for doing household chores. This helps teach them the value of work. And, after they spend the money all in one place a few times and don’t have anything left for something they really want, they (hopefully) will learn the value of saving. Opening a savings account or a CD, or buying bonds, can help teach kids about investing and the power of compounding.
How will revised tax limits affect your 2022 taxes? (January 20, 2022)
While Congress didn’t pass the Build Back Better Act in 2021, there are still tax changes that may affect your tax situation for this year. That’s because some tax figures are adjusted annually for inflation.
If you’re like most people, you’re probably more concerned about your 2021 tax bill right now than you are about your 2022 tax situation. That’s understandable because your 2021 individual tax return is generally due to be filed by April 18 (unless you file an extension).
What factors into the cost of capital? (January 6, 2022)
Valuation experts often use discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques to determine the value of a business or estimate economic losses. A critical input in a DCF model is the cost of capital. This is the rate that’s used to discount future earnings into today’s dollars. Small changes in this rate can have a major impact on the expert’s conclusion, so it’s important to get it right.
Topel Forman Promotes Two Partners
Daniel J. Sloan and Steven A. Hueffner have been promoted to Partner effective January 1, 2022, both based in Topel Forman's Chicago office. Daniel Sloan provides a full range of tax planning and audit services for investment companies, broker-dealers, and high net worth individuals. He has over fifteen years of experience with audits of investment companies, employee benefit audits, corporate and partnership taxation. Steven Hueffner has extensive experience in wealth planning and income tax services for high-net-worth families specializing in gift taxation, estate, and generational taxation, trust compliance, and charitable planning. Steven is experienced in client advisory services and adept at succession planning.
With year-end approaching, 3 ideas that may help cut your tax bill (December 20, 2021)
If you’re starting to worry about your 2021 tax bill, there’s good news — you may still have time to reduce your liability
60 Years At Topel Forman
Topel Forman celebrates 60 years in business. In speaking to retired members and current employees who have been here for over twenty years it was abundantly clear that Topel Forman has continued to operate with core values at the forefront of our business. We are grateful for our clients both longstanding and new as well as our dedicated employees who operate with flexibility, integrity, excellence, and respect.
Are you ready for the upcoming audit season? (December 7, 2021)
An external audit is less stressful and less intrusive if you anticipate your auditor’s document requests. Auditors typically ask clients to provide similar documents year after year. They’ll accept copies or client-prepared schedules for certain items, such as bank reconciliations and fixed asset ledgers. To verify other items, such as leases, invoices and bank statements, they’ll want to see original source documents.
Private companies: Are you on track to meet the 2022 deadline for the updated lease standard? (November 12, 2021)
The updated guidance calls for major changes to current accounting practices for leases with terms of a year or longer. In a nutshell, ASU 2016-02 requires lessees to recognize on their balance sheets the assets and liabilities associated with all long-term rentals of machines, equipment, vehicles, and real estate. The updated guidance also requires additional disclosures about the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows related to leases.
Most existing arrangements that currently are reported as leases will continue to be reported as leases under the updated guidance. In addition, the new definition is expected to encompass many more types of arrangements that aren’t reported as leases under current practice. Some of these arrangements may not be readily apparent, for example, if they’re embedded in service contracts or contracts with third-party manufacturers.
Estate planning pitfalls exist if a significant portion of your wealth is concentrated in a single stock
Estate planning and investment risk management go hand in hand. After all, an estate plan is effective only if you have some wealth to transfer to the next generation
Selling a home: Will You Owe Tax On the Profit?
The tax implications if you’re selling your home or you sold one in 2021. Depending on your home sale profit and your income, some or all of the gain may be tax-free. But for higher-income people with pricey homes, there may be a tax bill.
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Protecting Your Company From Cryptocurrency Fraud
According to blockchain data company Chainalysis, cryptocurrency transactions associated with illegal activity ...
Smooth sailing: Tips to speed processing and avoid hassles this tax season
The IRS began accepting 2021 individual tax returns on January 24. If you haven’t prepared yet for tax season, here are three quick tips to help speed processing and avoid hassles.
Educate your children on wealth management? (January 25, 2022)
There’s no one right way to teach your children about money. The best way depends on your circumstances, personality, and your comfort level.
If your kids are old enough, consider sending them to a money management class. For younger children, you might start by simply giving them an allowance in exchange for doing household chores. This helps teach them the value of work. And, after they spend the money all in one place a few times and don’t have anything left for something they really want, they (hopefully) will learn the value of saving. Opening a savings account or a CD, or buying bonds, can help teach kids about investing and the power of compounding.
How will revised tax limits affect your 2022 taxes? (January 20, 2022)
While Congress didn’t pass the Build Back Better Act in 2021, there are still tax changes that may affect your tax situation for this year. That’s because some tax figures are adjusted annually for inflation.
If you’re like most people, you’re probably more concerned about your 2021 tax bill right now than you are about your 2022 tax situation. That’s understandable because your 2021 individual tax return is generally due to be filed by April 18 (unless you file an extension).
What factors into the cost of capital? (January 6, 2022)
Valuation experts often use discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques to determine the value of a business or estimate economic losses. A critical input in a DCF model is the cost of capital. This is the rate that’s used to discount future earnings into today’s dollars. Small changes in this rate can have a major impact on the expert’s conclusion, so it’s important to get it right.
Topel Forman Promotes Two Partners
Daniel J. Sloan and Steven A. Hueffner have been promoted to Partner effective January 1, 2022, both based in Topel Forman's Chicago office. Daniel Sloan provides a full range of tax planning and audit services for investment companies, broker-dealers, and high net worth individuals. He has over fifteen years of experience with audits of investment companies, employee benefit audits, corporate and partnership taxation. Steven Hueffner has extensive experience in wealth planning and income tax services for high-net-worth families specializing in gift taxation, estate, and generational taxation, trust compliance, and charitable planning. Steven is experienced in client advisory services and adept at succession planning.
With year-end approaching, 3 ideas that may help cut your tax bill (December 20, 2021)
If you’re starting to worry about your 2021 tax bill, there’s good news — you may still have time to reduce your liability
60 Years At Topel Forman
Topel Forman celebrates 60 years in business. In speaking to retired members and current employees who have been here for over twenty years it was abundantly clear that Topel Forman has continued to operate with core values at the forefront of our business. We are grateful for our clients both longstanding and new as well as our dedicated employees who operate with flexibility, integrity, excellence, and respect.
Are you ready for the upcoming audit season? (December 7, 2021)
An external audit is less stressful and less intrusive if you anticipate your auditor’s document requests. Auditors typically ask clients to provide similar documents year after year. They’ll accept copies or client-prepared schedules for certain items, such as bank reconciliations and fixed asset ledgers. To verify other items, such as leases, invoices and bank statements, they’ll want to see original source documents.
Private companies: Are you on track to meet the 2022 deadline for the updated lease standard? (November 12, 2021)
The updated guidance calls for major changes to current accounting practices for leases with terms of a year or longer. In a nutshell, ASU 2016-02 requires lessees to recognize on their balance sheets the assets and liabilities associated with all long-term rentals of machines, equipment, vehicles, and real estate. The updated guidance also requires additional disclosures about the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows related to leases.
Most existing arrangements that currently are reported as leases will continue to be reported as leases under the updated guidance. In addition, the new definition is expected to encompass many more types of arrangements that aren’t reported as leases under current practice. Some of these arrangements may not be readily apparent, for example, if they’re embedded in service contracts or contracts with third-party manufacturers.
Estate planning pitfalls exist if a significant portion of your wealth is concentrated in a single stock
Estate planning and investment risk management go hand in hand. After all, an estate plan is effective only if you have some wealth to transfer to the next generation
Selling a home: Will You Owe Tax On the Profit?
The tax implications if you’re selling your home or you sold one in 2021. Depending on your home sale profit and your income, some or all of the gain may be tax-free. But for higher-income people with pricey homes, there may be a tax bill.
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